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Read the news on any particular day and it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that the world is Bad. We can do our best to resist the Badness and maybe even contribute some Goodness, but while all of us (Peter Thiel excluded) will one day die, the Badness will surely live on forever. This, my friend, is where the bubbles come in.

Tech makes you giddy. Tech makes you fly. Tech makes you sumo wrestle. These are just a few of the things I learned in the whiplash-inducing commercial for the BBC America show Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers, which premieres tonight. (Full disclosure: Gizmodo is owned by Gawker Media and that is 100 percent of the reason why I am reviewing a commercial.) Apparently featuring at least one person (Joel Johnson) that I hear I work within feet of but cannot be sure of because there are too many crappy TV shows to watch and Mariah Carey gifs to make for me to swivel around and survey the Gizmodo area of the Gawker office, Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers none the less seems like it's full of swell, fun-loving people whose gizmos make them say, "Yeah!" "Whoo!" and "Holy crap!" Spoiler alert: It's pretty clear that the gizmos passed their tests. It's pretty clear that the show does, too: The breathlessly frenetic 31 seconds of this ad spot just fly by. It's an exquisitely paced commercial.

As we speak, Gawker Media gadget site Gizmodo is livebloggingwriting about the forthcoming release of Apple's iPad 3. Will the new device have a screen? Will it have a blade for stabbing Nook users? Will Steve Jobs descend from the heavens with a chorus of angels? Will the angels be clothed, or will there be "naked private parts"?

When you're in a hole, stop digging. Apple, with its enviable PR, shouldn't need to learn that lesson, but apparently it does—if only to prevent the sort of inaccurate, overreaching Congressional testimony Bud Tribble delivered Tuesday.

Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most physically challenging things a human being can do. You'd think that if there were one place on Earth where people would leave their phones at home, that would be it. Wrong. [Gizmodo]

In case you weren't aware, two rich and good looking people in England just got married, and everyone in the world went into a frenzy about their hats and hair and shoes. So photos were key! Here's the gear. [Gizmodo]

Last year, 77 year-old Iowan senator Chuck Grassley vowed to do anything for reelection-including picking up Twitter. We almost wish he hadn't. Grassley's 1,147 tweets are possibly among the most incoherent, confounding, mind-boggling text on the internet. [Gizmodo]

This is a diorama inspired by New York's Canal Street. It doesn't just miniaturize the street though, it also includes the underside of New York City, too—the labyrinth of subways that make the wonderful city move. [Gizmodo]

In a surprising move, Apple's broken their silence on the iPhone location tracking controversy with a Q&A press release. Most notable: they admit the massive data cache goes too far, and will be fixed in an impending software update. [Gizmodo]

A side effect of this week's location tracking fiasco is that a lot of other different types of data and transmissions to and from your smartphone are being conflated into a huge pile of fevered paranoia. Don't freak out. [Gizmodo]

Your iPhone is keeping a record of everywhere you've been since June. This data is stored on your phone (or iPad) and computer, easily available to anyone who gets their hands on it. Why? Apple won't say. Creepy. [Gizmodo]

When Colonel Gadhafi seized control of the internet and jammed cellular networks, it left 2 million Libyans without secure wireless communication. Now a Libyan telecom executive has come up with a plan to take back control of the airwaves. [Gizmodo]

The U.S. government is telling Americans inside an 80-kilometer radius around the Fukushima nuclear plant to evacuate. If the federal government followed the same policy on US soil, these would be the consequences in the three most populated cities. [Gizmodo]

That's Endeavour on the launch pad, waiting for the start of mission STS-134. But, like the United States government and most of its vital science operations, it may shut down tonight. If that happens, that's very bad news. [Gizmodo]

After watching this time-lapse video of 2,459 photos stitched together, you'll be bowled over by the photographer's sense of adventure—not to mention Air France's passengers' willingness to allow a camera to click away every 30 seconds. [Gizmodo]

Recognize this oil on canvas painting? Believe it or not, it's perhaps the best-known Leonardo da Vinci painting this side of The Last Supper. Yes, it's the Mona Lisa without Mona Lisa, as interpreted by Adobe Photoshop. [Gizmodo]